bull team†

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a team of several pairs of oxen, used for heavy freighting.

Quotations

1935

. . . all bull teams, mind you, with maybe sixteen pair of widehorns yoked to the same drag chain so the darned wagon had to move.

1950

Bull teams were made up of patient, plodding oxen. Twelve to sixteen yoke, or pairs, of these animals drawing one load was the common practice. . . .

1964

From that point, it was hauled to Fort McLeod by "bull-team". . . .